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>From: "Kwan-yin Kong" <address@hidden> >Organization: CCNY >Keywords: 200408131552.i7DFqcaW028056 McIDAS IMGDISP IMGLIST Hi Kwan-yin, re: my experience with the IMGDISP command and the combination of ALL= and TIME= > Thanks. I'll check the IMGDISP command again. Hmm... I just tried loading sectors from the 1 km N0R national composite, and I think I see what you were seeing: IMGDISP NEXRCOMP/1KN0R-NAT ALL=1 50 EU=BREF SF=YES REFRESH='EG GRA=(GRA);MAP H GRA=(GRA)' TIME=00:00 00:59 IMGDISP: There are no images that meet the selection criteria IMGDISP: done IMGDISP failed, RC=2 I know that there are images whose TIMEs lie between 0Z and 0:59Z: IMGLIST NEXRCOMP/1KN0R-NAT.ALL TIME=00:00 00:59 Image file directory listing for:NEXRCOMP/1KN0R-NAT Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Band(s) sensor Lat Lon --- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------ 117 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:00:00 TWX 27 118 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:04:00 TWX 27 119 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:08:00 TWX 27 120 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:13:00 TWX 27 121 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:17:00 TWX 27 122 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:22:00 TWX 27 123 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:26:00 TWX 27 124 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:31:00 TWX 27 125 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:36:00 TWX 27 126 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:40:00 TWX 27 127 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:45:00 TWX 27 128 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:49:00 TWX 27 129 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:54:00 TWX 27 130 RADAR 14 AUG 04227 00:59:00 TWX 27 So, there really is a problem loading from the NEXRCOMP/1KN0R-NAT dataset that I will need to investigate, and/or pass along to SSEC. One that you could do to work around the problem is use IMGLIST to get a listing of the number of images in the TIME= interval you are interested in, and then set the ALL= keyword values using that information. I just did this, and it works fine meaning that if you specify ALL=1 n, where 'n' is the number of images that exist in the TIME= interval, then the command works fine. > As for what I asked about the surface data, what I >meant was the "sea-surface" temperature from ships and >buoys (not the regular air temp). OK, I am sorry that I misunderstood what you were asking. I don't think that there are many observations of sea surface temperatures. There are no observations that SFCPLOT can plot. You may have to start looking at model output to get a handle on sea surface temperatures. To plot/contour values from model output (ADDE dataset RTGRIDS), you will need to use GRDDISP. I will get back to you with what I find on the plotting of time ranges of data from the NEXRCOMP/1KN0R-NAT dataset. The problem might be on the server side, but I won't know for sure until I dig deeper. Until then, I recommend using IMGLIST to find out how many images can be plotted and then setting ALL= in your script to numbers that work. Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.